Labour talks down the prospect of nationalising public services and says it wants to take a more market-based approached.
Whichever way you look at it Jacob and Keir, Brexit is sh*t
Keir Starmer and Jacob Rees-Mogg say Brexit has benefits: what are they? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
An analysis by the University of Sussex Trade Policy Observatory found that the UK's Brexit losses were 178 times bigger than any gains from new agreements, with all deals combined worth less than 50p per person a year.
Very curious to see how this article goes down.
Pretty sure hitching your wagon to Rees-Mogg's star is going to suck you into a black hole.
Labour 'A more market based approach to public services' WTF...the Tories have privatised water companies that last year started pumping raw sewage into every river in England and Wales right after Brexit, the EU previously cleaned 99% of UK's rivers and coastlines. That's gone.
Those same companies earned billions in revenues and duly gave it to their CEO's and shareholders, privatisation always operates like this, it takes the money and runs. The NHS is up next with US big pharma eyeing it up in the same way a serial killer eyes up their next victim.
Brexit, a Trojan Horse full of disaster capitalists who exploited sovereignty as a means of being above the laws of society, things like paying taxes and deregulating the hell out of food safety, a kind of guns and caviar approach to free markets. None of this makes Brexit work.
Rees-Mogg and Starmer summed up.
'Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind' - Upanishads 800 BCE #BrexitIsntWorking#BrexitLies
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The right have always conflated Democratic Socialism with totalitarian Communism, history shows how western countries sought to force disaster capitalism on stable economies going so far as to replace an entire culture with off domiciled corporations. Something parallel to this
has been ushered in with populism and Brexit in the UK. The tactics deployed were well learned tropes of right wing propaganda; division, identifying a common enemy and an overwhelming sense of betrayal and victimhood. The 'promises' emblazoned on the Leave bus, billboard posters
and social media platforms all turned out to be empty mirages and dangled carrots that Leavers and Sun readers are now being asked by Jacob Rees-Mogg to email him about as he's struggling to come up with any tangible benefits himself.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) since 2018 are are taking dark money from corporations like British American Tobacco and Big Tech along with Arms manufacturers & Healthcare
Weapons makers and private firms donate £13m to get exclusive access to MPs opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
businesses. Since 2018 over £25 million in donations from the private sector to APPG's, these are massive conflicts of interest that are the result of post Brexit deregulation and will harm the public sector irreparably. Private donors remain hidden with no accountability
This all amounts to insidious 'back door' lobbying with one Tory MP telling openDemocracy 'I am not releasing anything to you.' In times of crisis disaster capitalists get their foot in the door of democracies and aided by the right wing wreak havoc while cost of living soars.
Grover Norquist is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform who oppose all tax increases. He is also a board member of the NRA. He said "I don't want to abolish Govt, I want to reduce its size so I can drown it in a bathtub. He is pals with Matthew & Sarah Elliott, who
are also pals with Brexit loving Charles Koch who is making millions from fossil fuel mining and establishing climate denial green washing tactics around the world including the UK. Truss's 'Global network of Liberty' is brimming with free market libertarians and RW think tanks
The political and financial reach of these billionaire tycoons is staggering, they're against taxation, against welfare state and adept at smoothly ensuring their power perpetuates a never ending loop of societal pain & misery while they hoard their wealth and destroy the planet
Profiting from Covid and then partying about it is one facet of the Tories disaster capitalist agenda for post Brexit UK. Instability is the new stability for right wing libertarians the world over. Truss's Global network of Liberty is about the freedom to profit from disasters
big and small, environmental, financial, political, social, the more fuel is poured on the fire by multinationals and hostile foreign actors, the more those less well off will feel its impact.
Social media has been weaponised to spread disinformation and further stoke division, so when Twitter clamps down, Tory politicians move onto Parler, they constantly need panic and lies to sow outrage in the headlines spewed out by off domiciled press barons. Why?
There is a name for how Govt's shamelessly profit and subcontract to multinationals during times of crisis, it's known as Disaster Capitalism. Treachery, betrayal, plundering of tax payers money, demonising of the other, endless deflection, lies, partying, criminal negligence,
democide, the transfer of public money into private hands, your punishment is what keeps the champagne flowing. Your families well being discarded for pure venality, the public sector is total anathema to this Govt, Brexit+Covid=Goldrush for the Tories. #unacceptable
UK tax payers, please read! You're being taken for mugs, the Tories have scrounged your money and given it to companies...in China!
Hong Kong based oil and gas firm Jason Offshore Equipment was handed a £25 million contract in June 2020. 18 months later, the DHSC still hasn’t
Thinking about why Tory constituencies have 10 times the amount of Govt funding than red wall ones. I believe Post Brexit the UK will birth Charter cities that are self regulated, meaning they can choose how their taxes are spent, in the Tories hands this conveniently transforms
into all out attacks on the public sector/welfare. Home rule allows local political and interest groups increased freedom from state supervision and interference, paving the way for corporate take over and more privatisation. Disaster capitalists aim to shake off the oppressive
constraints of democracy and need well off Tory voters support, those who are tired of paying taxes to help the public sectors struggles. The more constituencies the Tories have and the more cash is funneled into them from the tax payer, a chain reaction